Month: January 2015

The Golden Hurricane women’s basketball team is still looking for traction as their season moves into conference play. This season, Tulsa has yet to have a winning streak or a losing streak longer than two games. Fittingly, their last three non-conference games resulted in a loss, a win and then another loss. After losing to […]

Tim Burton’s recent film “Big Eyes” is, unsurprisingly, worth seeing, but not for the reasons you may have expected. “Big Eyes” is based on the life of Margaret Keane, an aspiring artist and single mother who married fellow artist Walter Keane after meeting him at a gathering of art vendors. Realizing that Margaret is a […]

Tulsa native Ronald Radford is called the American Master of Flamenco. He has performed on his guitar in 15 countries and on four different continents. Radford gave a successful show at the Lorton Center last Thursday for a packed auditorium. Radford grew up in Tulsa. Though he always knew he wanted to be a musician, […]

The Flamenco guitarist Ronald Radford performed for an older audience on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at TU’s School of Music. Growing up in Tulsa as a child, he didn’t have any experience with Spanish music, especially Flamenco, until his mother brought home a vinyl record of the great guitarist Carlos Montoya. He was in love […]

Usually when a pop star utters anything resembling the phrase, “This is the album where I show the real me,” it’s time to run. “The Pinkprint,” ambitiously titled after Jay-Z’s creative watermark, was created by Niki Minaj hoping to return to the urban roots that launched her and appeasing the rapheads who had turned on […]

Dostoevsky: “The Lost Robin” (a very short excerpt) “Are you my mother?” the baby robin approached the dog and asked it. “No, I am not your mother!” the dog exclaimed. “If you are not my mother, then by what means do you derive the authority to tell me this?” asked the Robin, suddenly impetuous. “Indeed, […]

If you live in an apartment, you were at some point in the past week probably asked to sign a form acknowledging that the University of Tulsa has opted out of the EMSAcare program. The program adds $5.45 onto residents’ monthly utility bill, so that those who need EMSA transportation aren’t burdened with the $1,300 […]

Ineffective tortue, lying to government oversight, hacking the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers, destroying evidence, imprisoning innocent people, providing false evidence in support of the Iraq war—the CIA has really done nothing right in regard to its torture program. The CIA has used waterboarding, anal forced feeding and keeping prisoners awake for over 180 hours (one […]

Making a mockery doesn’t necessarily make a difference. In recent months, James Franco and Seth Rogen’s comedy “The Interview” created a stir when its release was cancelled after parent corporation Sony was hacked (supposedly by North Korean hackers, although North Korea has denied involvement while still praising the deed). The film was eventually released in […]

Moves towards the normalization of relations and the relaxing of sanctions would rightly be less controversial and more widely celebrated had the United States achieved more in the deal with Cuba. Changing policies is a bargaining chip with the Castro regime. Unfortunately, there isn’t anything that the United States has received for doing so. The […]